UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5348

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5348

    Published: 10 Oct 2016Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-5348

    Summary:

    Details: The GPS component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, and device hang or reboot) via a large xtra.bin or xtra2.bin file on a spoofed Qualcomm gpsonextra.net or izatcloud.net host, aka internal bug 29555864.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5348, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b, https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747, https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5348

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: android

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160330-0939-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    20150818-1500-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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